namibia countriesafrican namibia has a plan to ween itself off of expensive electricity imports from nearby south africa. it has renovated the national grid to help make people homes into power-production systems. >> the potential is up mostly in namibia, solar energy, wind energy, and biomass energy. >> the government was to have a significant amount of the country's energy coming from this by 2020. >> our target is 10%. >> getting small producers into production has only recently become possible. it is the first country in africa to create both a new l ones. an electrical grid like this one can take power from many different sources, anywhere in the system. the architect installed this to reduce its own electricity costs and also to show his clients what is possible with the new technology. >> it is a very smart investment because the payback of this investment will be between six and eight years. also, smaller consumers could be helping out, and the system, by putting that in the grid, we would not have to import that much energy from south africa because we could be a lot more self-sufficient. >> and goes directly into these margaret, allowing him to feed it with his home produces excess energy and draw from it when solar power ru